... metres to go, Mission control lost communications with Beresheet and its attempt at a soft landing on the dusty grey regolith were thwarted. "We had a failure in the spacecraft; we unfortunately have not managed to land successfully," Opher Doron...
... tolerant of heavy metals, M. sedula has already been experimented on in the lab, where scientists have grown it on Martian regolith simulants - material that looks and feels like ground-down rocks on Mars, but isn’t actually the...
... a picture of what the uppermost layers of the Martian crust are alike. According to their paper, Mars is encased by a regolith layer just a few metres in depth, under which a much deeper crustal layer extends down to 8 and 11 kilometres...
... be supported in nightly brines that are likely widespread through the shallow loose surface deposits known as Martian regolith. Now, a new study presented by a team of US astronomers and headed by Edgard Rivera-Valentín at the Lunar and Planetary...
... hitting the Red Planet. However, if you combined the fungus with other in situ resources such as martian regolith, then a thinner layer of the black mould would suffice, say Shunk and colleagues. “Through the design...
... shadowed craters on the Moon, scientists think that large quantities of water, either in ice or mixed with lunar regolith, could be available for human explorers to make use of. Water is a critical resource for long-term exploration, as it can...